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Freedom Cries Out

Part of the Songs from the Viaduct 2025

Add to my Calendar 19-06-2025 19:30 19-06-2025 21:30 36 Freedom Cries Out The programme touches on themes of Homeland, Exile, War, Family, Hope and New Beginnings. Freedom Cries Out features a newly commissioned song cycle by Raymond Yiu, setting stories from real refugee accounts taken from literary magazine, 'The Other Side of Hope.' It also includes the UK premiere of Shawn Okpebholo's song cycle 'Words Like Freedom,' setting poems of Langston Hughes, and Jake Heggie's 'These Strangers.' These cycles sit alongside selected songs by Errollyn Wallen, Cecilia McDowall, Cheryl Frances-Hoad amongst others. The programme features two newly created songs from arias in Roxanna Panufnik's opera, 'Dalia' (Garsington Opera, 2022), telling the story of a Syrian refugee girl as she crosses the Mediterranean Sea. Holy Sepulchre Church (Musicians’ Church), London DD/MM/YYYY

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Holy Sepulchre Church (Musicians’ Church)
Holborn Viaduct
Holborn, City of London
London
EC1A 2DQ
England

Programme

Raymond Yiu – The Names of the Earth
Modest Mussorgsky – The Orphan
Edgar Leslie Bainton – The Twilight People
Errollyn Wallen – Peace on Earth
Roxanna Panufnik – Dalia

Performers

Samantha Crawford – soprano
Berrak Dyer – piano

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Finding Freedom

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The programme touches on themes of Homeland, Exile, War, Family, Hope and New Beginnings. Freedom Cries Out features a newly commissioned song cycle by Raymond Yiu, setting stories from real refugee accounts taken from literary magazine, 'The Other Side of Hope.' It also includes the UK premiere of Shawn Okpebholo's song cycle 'Words Like Freedom,' setting poems of Langston Hughes, and Jake Heggie's 'These Strangers.' These cycles sit alongside selected songs by Errollyn Wallen, Cecilia McDowall, Cheryl Frances-Hoad amongst others. The programme features two newly created songs from arias in Roxanna Panufnik's opera, 'Dalia' (Garsington Opera, 2022), telling the story of a Syrian refugee girl as she crosses the Mediterranean Sea.

This concert is a song recital called Freedom Cries Out, in partnership with Refugee Education UK. It is a programme of new music sung and put together by soprano, Samantha Crawford, telling the stories of displaced people and refugees, with music by lead

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